Devouring the Stars: The Lord of the Sky

Chapter 241 Preparations Before Establishment
After the top-level gathering concluded, Lu Jin withdrew from the virtual universe.

The main body returned to Lingxiao Palace and gave Huang'er the top-tier palace treasure, the 'Golden Palace,' which had been dropped by the Lord of Behemoth.

At the same time, the strongest Blood God Child incarnation dissipated and transformed back into 10081 Blood God Child incarnations.

One of the Blood God's avatars continued to activate the strongest talent secret technique, 'Chaotic Tide,' within the Netherworld God Kingdom from time to time, maintaining the secret pattern of the strongest talent secret technique.

The 8000 Blood God Child incarnations, like the main body and the Water Qilin clone, continued to comprehend the eight mysterious patterns of the Water Beast.

In order to create the strongest secret technique of the Lord of the Universe, and at the same time comprehend the ethereal heart of the Beast God.

Of the remaining 2080 Blood God Child incarnations, 2079, like the Time Dragon Avatar and the Netherworld Blood Sea Avatar, devoted themselves to comprehending the laws of time.

As for the last Blood God Child incarnation, he left the Heavenly Realm.

Xuanhuangtian, the temporary headquarters of Yanhuang Company.

"Xu Xin, quickly popularize auxiliary optical computers within the Xuanhuang Heaven."

Lu Jin's Blood God Child incarnation spoke to Xu Xin.

Just before, Lu Jin made a trip to Guanghan Star and, through the Gate of Heaven, moved the Yanhuang Company headquarters, which had already been prepared for relocation, to Xuanhuang Heaven.

Xu Xin nodded: "No problem. Although the population in Xuanhuang Heaven is expanding rapidly, the company has already purchased a large number of production lines, so the output is still very considerable."

"What about the production of slave chips?"

Lu Jin asked again.

"If the existing production lines operate at full capacity, the annual output of slave chips can reach 1000 trillion."

After a pause, Xu Xin asked again, "What is the specific use of producing so many slave chips?"

Lu Jin said, "After the Heavenly Court is established, it will force all cosmic nations to prohibit the human slave trade."

The countless monsters in the world of mountains and seas can fill this gap.

I'm not sure if 1000 trillion demon slaves per year is enough. If not, you should continue to expand the production line.

Monsters that are not of royal or imperial blood have a remarkable ability to reproduce.

There are at least tens of trillions of demonic beasts in the Heavenly Realm of Mountains and Seas. Let alone selling 1000 trillion demonic beasts every year, even selling 100 trillion trillion demonic beasts every year would be easily manageable.

It's only a few hundred per year, so it's not a problem at all.

Monsters below the Domain Lord level can be controlled with slave chips, while those below the Stellar level can be used as breeding boars.

Aside from those with exceptional talent, stellar and cosmic-level monsters are implanted with slave chips and put up for sale as slaves.

As for the domain lord and realm lord level demon beasts, those with good talent remain in the Mountain and Sea Heaven to serve as lower-level management personnel and servants, while those with poor talent are controlled through special treasures and sold as slaves.

Slaves below the Domain Lord level, managers and slaves at the Domain Lord level, managers, cattle and horses and slaves at the World Lord level, cattle and horses at the Immortal level, low-level thugs at the King level, and high-level thugs at the Universe Venerable level.

These six different levels of identity represent the advancement paths of countless demonic beasts in the world of mountains and seas.

What if one were to be so fortunate as to master time and space and become the master of the universe?
That would be even more glorious!

If a deity has a majestic appearance, they can pull the chariot of the great Heavenly Emperor or serve as a mount for the high-ranking officials of the Heavenly Court.

Upon hearing this, Xu Xin was taken aback.

After a moment of contemplation, Xu Xin said with some concern, "Won't such a large-scale sale of demonic beasts provoke retaliation from the demon race?"

Put yourself in their shoes. If the demon race had an organization that sold countless human slaves every year, and the scale of the sale was the largest in the universe, how could the human race sit idly by?

Lu Jin waved his hand dismissively and said, "The hatred between the Heavenly Court and the demon race has been going on for ages. Selling a few demon slaves is nothing."

"The hatred is immense? How so?"

Xu Xin asked with a curious expression.

Lu Jin said, "It's nothing to tell you, but the Heavenly Court pulled off a big heist before."

In one battle, they killed three universe lords of the demon race and captured one as well.

While it's not quite a fight to the death, it's pretty close.

"Our Heavenly Court has already slaughtered several demon lords, why would we care about selling a few demon slaves?"

"The Lord of the Universe?"

Xu Xin was greatly shocked.

If I remember correctly, Luo Feng seemed to have told her that the Lord of the Universe is the highest level of the various races in the universe.

With three universe lords killed, the demon race must be devastated.
Shocked, Xu Xin asked, "Since all the cosmic nations have banned the human slave trade, what about the large number of slave planets from before? Should we still handle them according to the methods used by the Tian Shuang cosmic nation?"

"Well, if the relevant empire or the official government of the universe, or other forces, take it over, then we shouldn't take it."

If no one has the resources to take it over, then buy it and make it a subsidiary of the company.

Furthermore, after the Heavenly Court is established, the Yanhuang Company should be rapidly expanded throughout the entire human realm, with one in every star system.

Lu Jin nodded and said.

"With such a large scale, Yanhuang Company's existing funds are far from sufficient, and it needs substantial financial support. Furthermore..."

After a moment's hesitation, Xu Xin continued, "Although the company has a lot of internal resources, I am currently just a Realm Lord. In terms of strength, I am not even comparable to the heads of the Star Domain branches of the other five major forces. Why don't you find a strong person to take over my job?"

As far as Xu Xin knew, the heads of the star domain branches of the five major forces were at least realm lords whose strength was recognized by the laws.

The head of the Star Region branch possesses strength at least at the level of a Marquis-level Immortal.

The person in charge of the headquarters must undoubtedly be a cosmic sage.

The Yanhuang Company represents the face of the Heavenly Court. She is merely a minor realm master. Wouldn't it be a disgrace to the Heavenly Court to serve as the head of the Yanhuang Company?

Lu Jin said, "I was just about to tell you about this."

I possess a special treasure that, when used, can grant the user the power to become a cosmic sovereign. However, the price is that the user will be rejected by the fundamental laws, rendering them unable to comprehend the laws in the future.

Discuss this with Luo Feng. If you can accept these side effects, I will train you to become a Universe Venerable, and you will continue to be in charge of the Heavenly Court's external affairs.

Of course, the treasures are precious and require a large amount of contribution points to exchange for.

For a long time to come, you will have to work for the Heavenly Court without pay until your wages repay this contribution.

"A Cosmic Venerable?!"

Xu Xin stared wide-eyed, her face filled with disbelief.

As for unpaid work, Xu Xin simply ignored it.

A loan can make you a cosmic master; such a good thing isn't something everyone gets to experience.

If the news were to be released, even if someone worked for free their entire life, there would still be plenty of immortals eager to join them.

Lu Jin said, "You and Luo Feng discuss it and decide on the specific choice yourselves."

Don't worry about the funding needed to expand the business; I'll take care of that later.

"it is good."

Xu Xin nodded.

After explaining things to Xu Xin, Lu Jin used the Kunlun Mirror to travel through space and arrived outside the headquarters of the Virtual Universe Company.

They entered the Chaos City of the Initial Universe once again through the cosmic passage.

There are two purposes for coming to Chaos City.

First, return the supreme treasure armor, 'Qian Yuan Hou Tu Armor,' that the Blood Demon extorted from the human race.

Secondly, they sold off the treasures that the Heavenly Court no longer needed to raise funds for future development.

To be honest, in Lu Jin's opinion, the top-tier treasure armor and weapons were neither good nor bad, and were rather useless to the current Heavenly Court.

For a cosmic overlord, high-grade treasure armor and weapons are sufficient.

After all, even if a cosmic overlord possesses top-tier treasure armor and weapons, he still cannot be a match for a top cosmic overlord.

As for the Lord of the Universe, his top-tier treasure armor and weapons are somewhat lacking.

For example, even the most powerful armor has a defense limit of around level three.

Once you exceed the third tier, the armor's physical attack damage reduction ratio will decrease to varying degrees.

The Heavenly Court has no top-tier cosmic overlords, but if Lu Jin were to become the master of the universe, he would naturally arrange for him to be equipped with supreme treasure armor and weapons.

In this way, top-tier treasure armor and weapons become rather useless and there's no need to keep them.

After entering the city lord's mansion, Lu Jin went straight to the clan's treasure vault.

Inside the treasure vault, Lu Jin opened the form to view the Supreme Treasure Armor.

Out of stock?

Lu Jin raised an eyebrow and then clicked on the Peak Treasure Weapon.

This time they do have stock, and there are several items.

That's true. Among treasures of the same grade, weapons are the easiest to obtain.

Relatively speaking, among the treasures born from the primordial universe, weapons make up the majority.

If crafted by a treasure refiner, weapons are the type of treasure with the lowest crafting difficulty.

Of course, apart from that old man who sits on the mountain, no one in the primordial universe can currently refine a supreme treasure.

The sources of ultimate treasures are mainly two: one is the primordial star, and the other is the cosmic sea.

Needless to say, every time the Primordial Star is opened, supreme treasures will be born.

There should be top-level treasure refiners in the Purple Moon Holy Land and the Eastern Emperor Holy Land of the Cosmic Sea.

Moreover, the cosmic sea is full of rare and precious places, capable of nurturing supreme treasures, or left behind by powerful beings before the Great Cataclysm.

Then, Lu Jin glanced at the Qian Yuan Thick Earth Armor in his hand and placed it on the stone plate in the center of the hall.

"Om-"

With a buzzing sound, strands of cyan silk threads rose from the stone disc, enveloping the Qian Yuan Thick Earth Armor and beginning a detailed inspection.

Soon, a gentle voice rang out: "The ultimate treasure armor 'Qian Yuan Hou Tu Armor' can be offered to the clan to obtain 1550 treasure points."

Lu Jin did not exchange the items. Instead, he took out the Qian Yuan Thick Earth Armor and then placed all the top-tier treasure armors and weapons of the Heavenly Court, as well as all ordinary and high-level treasures of different categories, soul categories, and palace categories that were below the top-tier level and whose quality was not top-grade, into the stone plate.

Just as the Heavenly Court doesn't need top-tier treasure armor and weapons, it also doesn't need ordinary or high-level realm, soul, or palace power treasures that are below the highest grade.

For high-level and lower-level Cosmic Venerables, ordinary or top-level treasures are sufficient in terms of domain-type, soul-type, and palace-type treasures.

The cosmic overlord uses top-grade ordinary domain-type, soul-type, and palace-type treasures.

As for the Lord of the Universe, at least a top-tier, high-level one should be assigned, right?

With numerous treasures sold and a large amount of treasure points earned, Lu Jin directly emptied the clan's treasury of four top-tier treasure weapons.

"Fatty, transfer 1550 Treasure Points to the Chaos City Lord, and note the price of the Qian Yuan Thick Earth Armor in the remarks."

Lu Jin gave the instructions to Fatty.

Is the buyback price lower than the selling price?
Lu Jin didn't care about that. He had already made a great contribution to the clan by selling many treasures.

"Yes, Master!"

Fatty responded.

Afterwards, Lu Jin did not stay in Chaos City any longer. After leaving the Initial Universe, he was directly teleported back to the Celestial Realm.

Inside the Lingxiao Palace.

"Zi Zhenfeng, Zi Yumo, you two go and wait outside the hall."

On the nine-colored throne, Lu Jin himself transmitted his voice to the two of them.

Upon hearing this, one of them stopped creating the technique, and the other stopped browsing the memory jade slip that recorded the treasure refining secrets. They bowed to Lu Jin and then left Lingxiao Palace.

Outside the Lingxiao Palace, the two hadn't waited long when another Lu Jin teleported in. "Heavenly Emperor."

The two bowed to each other.

As members of the Heavenly Court, they were already used to Lu Jin's many forms of transformation.

"Well, no courtesy."

Lu Jin waved his hand, then with a thought, many treasures materialized and landed in front of the two of them.

What was given to Zi Zhenfeng was the divine spark of the law of light and time fusion.

The ultimate treasure armor 'Azure Sky God-Slaying Armor', the ultimate treasure weapon 'Radiant Apocalypse Spear' purchased from the clan's treasury, a bloodline source crystal worth ten thousand times that of the corpse of the Demon Clan's Behemoth Lord, and 81 high-grade peaches.

In addition, there is a set of three supreme treasures in the Light-type, High-level, Soul-type, and Palace-type categories.

What was given to Zi Yumo was the divine spark of the laws of space and time.

The 'Crimson Flame Demon Scale Armor', a supreme treasure armor extorted from the Zerg, the 'Blazing Incineration Sword', a supreme treasure weapon purchased from the clan's treasury, a bloodline source crystal with a value of over nine thousand times that of the Demon Lord of the Heavenly Wolves, and over a thousand high-grade peaches.

In addition, there is a three-piece set of top-quality fire-type treasures in the realms of high level, soul, and palace.

Zi Zhenfeng is the head of the Heavenly Generals in the Heavenly Court. He possesses a Law Godhead at the level of the Lord of the Universe, so Lu Jin naturally arranged one for him.

As the ruler of the universe in the Heavenly Court, perfect genes and supreme treasures must naturally be provided.

As for Zi Yumo, although her strength is relatively weak, she has not yet created a universe overlord-level ultimate secret technique.

However, her treasure-refining skills suddenly broke through a bottleneck more than 20,000 years ago in the Lingxiao Palace, making her a supreme treasure-level treasure refiner.

She is also the only Supreme Treasure-level Refiner in the Heavenly Court besides Zi Ni Chang, and naturally she possesses a Godhead of the Laws of Time and Space.

If the two were not his soul servants, Lu Jin certainly wouldn't have been so generous, lest he find himself in the awkward situation of having nothing left to reward in the future.

But since we are slaves to the soul, it doesn't matter.

As for the remaining spacetime law divine spark, I'll just leave it as a pie for now.

Of the remaining 998 celestial generals, whoever first creates the ultimate secret technique of the Lord of the Universe, or whoever first refines the supreme treasure, will have this divine spark of the laws of space and time belong to them.

"Thank you, Heavenly Emperor!"

Upon seeing the extraordinary divine spark of law appear before them, the two immediately understood what it was and hurriedly greeted it with excited respect.

Lu Jin said, "When you break through, stay away from Lingxiao Palace and don't disturb the cultivation here. Come find me after you break through."

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

The two bowed in response, then transformed into streaks of light and departed.

Afterwards, Lu Jin began to set up the Great Luo Heaven.

With a wave of his hand, a supreme palace treasure, white in color and decorated with auspicious cloud reliefs, materialized.

With a thought, the white palace treasure flew to a distance and transformed into a magnificent palace complex. Above the main hall in the center, which was 600,000 kilometers high, hung a plaque with the three characters "Tianling Palace".

Immediately afterwards, another palace of the same style and quality manifested, transforming into a magnificent palace complex, with the three characters "Lingbao Hall" hanging in the central main hall.

The third is the 'Hall of Ascension', the fourth is the 'Dou Shuai Palace', the fifth is the 'Hall of Inheritance', the sixth is the 'Hall of Ascension', the seventh is the 'Hall of Enforcement', and the eighth is the 'Hall of Life'.
The Heavenly Spirit Hall is an institution that records the contributions of Heavenly Court members and the distribution of resources.

Lingbao Hall is the location of the Heavenly Treasury.

The Hall of Immortal Transformation is the resurrection ground for beings from the Immortal level to the Universe Lord level under the Heavenly Court, and it provides the Spirit Treasure Hall with divine source liquid.

The Tushita Palace is the administrative body of the treasure refiners under the Heavenly Court, providing the Spirit Treasure Hall with treasures of all levels, including supreme treasures.

The Hall of Inheritance contains the Crystal Inheritance Tower and the Heavenly Court Inheritance Tower, which are the storage places for a vast number of secret techniques passed down from the Heavenly Court.

The Hall of Ascension to Immortality is where Lu Jin will later place the Bodhi Tree, a place for the Heavenly Court's geniuses and strong individuals to attain enlightenment.

The Hall of Law Enforcement is the institution that maintains order within the Heavenly Court.

The Temple of Life, the Heavenly Demon Servant Management Office of the Mountain and Sea Heaven, is also an institution for cultivating plant life and metal life.

In the initial stage, Lu Jin planned four types of businesses for the Heavenly Court.

The first type is selling all kinds of treasures, from small items like Force weapons, armor, and psychic weapons below grade F, to grade F and G immortal divine weapons and armor, and large items like great treasures and supreme treasures.

Treasures below grade F are sold by Yanhuang Company's star-region level and below branches.

F-grade treasures are sold by sector-level branches.

Treasures of grade G and above will be directly added to the Spirit Treasure Hall.

The Lingbao Hall is open not only to members of the Heavenly Court, but also to human immortals and above.

The latter not only costs more to purchase items from the Lingbao Hall than the former, but can only be purchased from the Yanhuang Company headquarters.

The second option is to sell Divine Source Liquid. The Divine Source Liquid produced by the Immortal Transformation Pool is quite abundant and can be listed on the Spirit Treasure Hall as a precious resource for restoring divine power.

Furthermore, inside the Heavenly Court's Inheritance Tower, Lu Jin also saw methods for crafting treasures that gathered the energy of the surrounding environment and the universe, or were even overseen by immortals or higher-level powerhouses, communicating with the origin of the universe to produce unclaimed divine power.

The supply of divine essence liquid to the Heavenly Court in the future will not be limited to the Immortal Transformation Pool.

The third type is selling monster slaves. With countless monsters in the world of mountains and seas, Yanhuang Company is enough to become the largest slave trader in the original universe.

The fourth type involves selling various plant life seedlings and undertaking the cultivation of the strongest immortal-level plant and metal life forms.

Lu Jin didn't need to do the work of cultivating plant life seeds into seedlings, or cultivating weak plant and metal life into immortal beings.

Subsequently, six super-large water pools will be built within the Netherworld God Kingdom, and countless planetary, stellar, cosmic, domain lord, world lord, and immortal-level life source crystals will be poured into them at once.

The specific training can be handled entirely by a 100% loyal soul servant.

It would even be acceptable to build only World Lord-level and Immortal-level life source liquid pools.

Even after further dilution, the World Lord-level Life Source Liquid can still be used to cultivate plant life.

If the content is controlled properly, the absorption efficiency will simply not be as high as that of a Life Source Crystal of the corresponding grade.

After a flurry of activity, Lu Jin arranged the main functional buildings within the Great Luo Heaven, in addition to the Lingxiao Palace.

The final Lingxiao Palace will be decorated after the remaining thousand-year period in the original Lingxiao Palace has elapsed.

At this moment, two figures arrived through the air; they were none other than Zi Zhenfeng and Zi Yumo, who had already entered the realm of universe masters.

"Emperor of Heaven."

The two bowed.

"Have you considered the title of Lord of the Universe before?"

Lu Jin asked.

"Your Majesty, please give me a name."

The two bowed and said.

Whether or not you've thought about it before, that's all off the table. It has to be named by the great Heavenly Emperor.

After thinking for a moment, Lu Jin said, "Zhenfeng, you are the Lord of Light; Yumo, you are the Lord of Crimson."

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for bestowing this name upon me."

"Well, you should go to the Immortal Transformation Hall and absorb the Divine Source Liquid to fill the gaps in your divine bodies."

Furthermore, Zhenfeng, you will later travel to Xuanhuang Heaven and take Hong and Leishen as your disciples.

Both Hong and Thor are quite talented. In the original story, the former became a true god, while the latter was less talented but still became the ruler of the universe.

With proper training, they could serve as representatives of the younger generation in Heaven.

Moreover, if a cosmic ruler were to be their teacher, the two brothers would probably be overjoyed.

Zi Zhenfeng asked, "Your Majesty, may I ask which Hong, which Thunder God?"

The population of Xuanhuang Heaven is in the trillions, and there are countless people with the same name. Although ordinary people would not choose these two names, he still had to find out the truth.

Otherwise, it would be a small matter to accept the wrong disciple, but it would be a big matter to jeopardize His Majesty the Heavenly Emperor's affairs.

"The most talented Hong and Thor."

Lu Jin said.

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Zi Zhenfeng replied.

Lu Jin turned to Zi Yumo and said, "Yumo, log in to the virtual universe. My Heavenly Court has an exclusive plane in the virtual universe."

I'll give you the authority later. You'll be in charge of building the Heavenly Court's headquarters in the virtual universe. If you're short-handed, draw manpower from the Xuanhuang Heaven.

All five major powers have their own headquarters in the virtual universe, and the Heavenly Court is no exception.

At the previous high-level gathering, the Lord of Chaos City had told him that a plane had been specially created for the Heavenly Court.

However, this virtual dimension is currently a blank slate. The specific construction method is entirely up to the Heavenly Court to decide, and it will not require any cost.

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Zi Yumo responded.

"Go ahead~".

Lu Jin waved his hand.

After dismissing the two, Lu Jin flipped his hand, and a small glass ball materialized, then transformed into a colorful stream of light and disappeared into the origin of the universe.

Immediately following, with a thought from Lu Jin, on the huge white jade plaza in front of Lingxiao Palace, next to the celestial passage leading to Xuanhuang Heaven and many other celestial realms, a celestial passage tens of thousands of kilometers high appeared again, bearing the words 'Nine Heavens'.

After crossing the celestial passage and entering the Nine Heavens, Lu Jin began to transform the Nine Heavens.

According to the original plan, the Nine Heavens would be the Heavenly Court's external headquarters.

After the Heavenly Court is established, the headquarters of the Yanhuang Company will also be located in the Nine Heavens.

Immortal gods of the human race who are not affiliated with the Heavenly Court, or core members of the five major powers, can enter the Nine Heavens through the Heavenly Gate.

However, the celestial passages within the Nine Heavens are off-limits to non-celestial court members.

Moreover, even members of the Heavenly Court need to possess a certain level of authority to enter another Heavenly Realm from their original Heavenly Realm through the Heavenly Realm Passage.

Of course, exceptions include special cases such as high-ranking guests from other forces.

As the modification was underway, Fatty's voice rang out: "Master, Luo Feng has sent a video call request."

Clearly, Xu Xin had discussed it with Luo Feng.

"Connect."

"Shh!"

A virtual screen appeared in front of Lu Jin, displaying Luo Feng's image.

"Brother Jin, thank you for the treasure. If there's anything I can do to help, just let me know."

Luo Feng said with a grateful expression.

The so-called secret treasure is naturally the matter of achieving the status of a Universe Venerable that Lu Jin had mentioned to Xu Xin before.

Luo Feng was well aware of his wife's talent.

They're only slightly better than the most ordinary humans in the universe. Their current status as world lords is entirely due to the abundance of resources they've accumulated.

Within any of the 1008 universes, any random realm lord would have a talent far superior to Xu Xin's.

Lu Jin said with a smile, "This secret treasure of mine is not given away for free. Xu Xin will have to work hard to pay off her debts from now on."

Anyway, once your level surpasses that of a Realm Lord, your lifespan is limitless; you'll be able to pay off this loan someday.

Luo Feng: "."

(End of this chapter)